Camille Norment «Lemma Dilemma» opens 14 February at Galleri F 15

CAMILLE NORMENT
Lemma Dilemma

Galleri F 15, Albyalléen 60, Moss, Norway
14 February – 7 June 2026

Opening: Saturday 14 February 14:00
Open for press from Friday 13 February 11:00 (must be scheduled)
Curator: Maria C. Havstam

Camille Norment’s exhibition Lemma Dilemma is a poetic exploration of ideas about language, history and meaning, presented through a selection of new works that include sculptural, sonic installations, and drawing.

The Oslo-based American multimedia artist Camille Norment (b. 1970, USA) works in both contemporary art and music. Known for her large-scale sonic installations, Norment now turns inward in Lemma Dilemma with works that unfold as meditative expressions.

She draws direct inspiration from the French term essayer, meaning "to work through," and uses the exhibition as a process of coming to terms with, and possibly transcending, the troubled world of today.

– Camille Norment offers something personal in this exhibition, as she herself describes as “an intimacy like a circular breath”. Her poetic work reaches its form and presence through conceptual spaces and becomes re-forming of histories—active and alive, says curator Maria C. Havstam.

Central to this exhibition lies a double principle: Lemma and dilemma: Lemma represents a canonical unit of meaning, whereas Dilemma describes a situation of conflicting choices and viewpoints.

This is expressed in the works by a range of conceptual ideas and forms, which can evolve, re-form and be viewed from different perspectives:

As in the Spawn (2025) series, a paradigm of sound – the singing bowl – is split in two, then re-composed into different sculptural forms. Some resemble seed pods opened for generative reproduction, others recall the position making of a cairn.

And the series Petalfugue (2025) layer frail drawings on acetate between glass panels, created through repetitive meditative gestures of dotting spiralling forms. These shapes give the impression of both dynamic movement, outwards and inwards, and in stasis.

In the exhibition’s namesake work, Lemma Dilemma (2026), two rooms almost mirror each other in form and content, one looping a monotone spoken-wordplay, the other sparsely “ghost-mirroring” the first with sung words, both in the artist’s own voice. The text is itself a meditation on meaning and experience, expressed through the exploration of words and the psychological means of song – a contemplation on the fragile socio-political environment.

MEDIA ENQUIRES
Press viewings are possible from Friday 13 February. Please get in touch to schedule a viewing.

Press and Communications Officer, Ann Kristin Traaen:
akt@gallerif15.no, mob. +47 938 19 216.

Installation shots will be published shortly after the opening in the media library.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Camille Norment (b. 1970, USA) is an Oslo-based American multimedia artist. Her work is well known in both contemporary art and music, covering a multiplicity of forms including installation, composition, sound, sculpture, drawing and performance.

Norment explores sociocultural and psychological phenomena through what she calls cultural psychoacoustics: how context, form, space, and the viewer's body interact in the formation of physical and cognitive experiences.

Norment exhibits and performs internationally over a span of 30 years, has several permanent public artworks, and appears in many public and private collections. Recent solo exhibitions include The Dia Art Foundation, Chelsea New York, Bergen Kunsthall, and The Venice Biennial of Art amongst others.

OFFICIAL OPENING
Saturday 14 February 14:00 at Galleri F 15 in Moss.

Opening programme
Welcome by curator and interim director, Maria C. Havstam
Opening speech by the head of culture in Moss, Markus Dvergastein

The gallery is open 11:00-17:00 on the day of the opening.

Regular opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday 11:00 – 17:00.